Silver went to the Netherlands' Gerco Schroder, with Ireland's Cian O'Connor pushed into bronze position after a jump-off.
Suffering from whiplash, she made the team after a jump-off but then under-performed badly in Sydney, finishing 17th in qualifying and failing to make the final.
Last week I posed the question: Why did Al Gore, three months before the 2000 election, suicide-jump off the centrist, pro-tech, pro-biz Bridge To The Future that had twice put Bill Clinton in the White House?
For a peep into everyday Bangkok life, catch a boat during morning rush hour when smartly-dressed commuters jump off and on the regularly-stopping boats as easily as though they were on a bus.
This caused a noticeable (and duly noticed) one-off jump in the fraction of jobs defined as part-time (see chart).
This revealed that the gibbon uses four distinct modes of leaping, categorised as the orthograde single footed take-off, the orthograde two footed take-off, the orthograde squat jump and the pronograde single footed take off.
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Analysts reckon rising social security costs will almost certainly force the government to raise Japan's consumption tax, currently 5%, leading to a one-off jump in consumer prices during the next decade.
The 30-year-old Idowu soared past Evora's mark of 17.55 with his third-round jump, despite taking off well short of the board.
And by the time Where the Streets Have No Name boomed out of the speakers it was definitely a case of forget about drinking the lager - let's throw it in the air, rip off our T-shirts and jump as high as we can.
Her on-off romance with leading jump jockey Richard Johnson has also attracted attention, with the couple once having a very public fall-out.
Chinese lorry-drivers complain of highway banditry, as gangs jump on to the back of slow-moving lorries and pull off goods.
Griffin won a hard-fought jump ball, but Paul missed a desperation 3-point attempt as the shot clock went off.
The partisan crowd at Cypress Mountain groaned when the home favourite lost his balance while coming off the second-to-last jump.
He kept scoring efficiently (and was 7-for-10 from the three-point arc), scoring both off jump shots and from the line, to bring his total to 42 heading into the fourth.
Railway officials are also puzzled by the driver and his assistant's apparent lack of reaction - they do not appear to have tried to jump off the train or apply brakes.
The play, which played off-Broadway last year and recently made the jump to the Golden Theatre, centers on three middle-aged siblings.
Wright reached second on Brett Gardner's throwing error and got a great jump off the bag when Duda fisted a single to right-center.
As with earlier efforts to bring to fruition revolutionary technology, like the helicopter and the Harrier "jump jet, " the military undertakes difficult challenges when the pay-off is clear and the risks acceptable.
The seven-inch barrier-type LCD display shows lifelike 3D images that appear to jump right off the screen.
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Racers begin on the ramp, pushing off onto a 45-degree decline and hitting a jump in seconds.
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For example, using the armor's jump-pack accessory allows players to leap up to hidden spots and pick off enemies.
But so much has happened since 14 March 2008 when the nine-year-old and jockey Sam Thomas carried off the biggest prize in jump racing.
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Friday's sell-off was triggered by US inflation data, which posted its biggest jump in five years.
The challenge from Phillips Idowu was a mighty tough one - he had to jump a world class distance to beat him, and he pulled it off.
She two-footed and underrotated the second jump in her double axel-triple toe loop combination, and also got a deduction for taking off on the wrong edge of her triple lutz.
The firm repeatedly leapt off one horse and on to another but the crucial jump came from the mid-1960s, when it was building up a business making the driveshafts that connect car engines to wheels.
Things fell off the wagon from the jump for the Knicks, who never led and are now 14-14 over their past 28 games.
He said the government should never have scrapped its Harrier jump jets, which he said had been "sold off to America for a fraction of their value" - a decision he said risked "international ridicule".
This is where adrenaline junkies come to attach themselves to bungee cords and jump off bridges, and where young world travelers party until dawn (or well after, given the well-dressed twenty-something couple I saw emerge from the woods at 8am and stagger back into town).
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